Week 1 – When You Pray: Recovering Your True Humanity

Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sermons

Series: When You PrayScripture: Luke 11:1-4 “Prayer is an expression of who we are . . . We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.” Thomas Merton “Listen to this, you who are often so helpless that you do not know what to do. At times you do not even know how to pray. Your mind seems full of sin and impurity. Your mind is preoccupied with what the Bible calls the world. God and eternal and holy things seem so distant and foreign to you that you feel that you add sin to sin by desiring to approach God in such a state of mind . . . Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God.” O. Hallesby “Over the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer living, which we know we are passing by. Strained by the very mad pace of our daily outer burdens, we are further strained by an inward uneasiness, because we have hints that there is a way of life vastly richer and deeper than all this hurried existence, a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power.” Thomas Kelly, A Testament of DevotionThe post Week 1 – When You Pray: Recovering Your True Humanity first appeared on Hope Church PCA.